4/30/16 – ELEKTRA @ 1:00PM
Metropolitan Opera
Elektra by Richard Strauss
Libretto written by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which he adapted from his 1903 drama Elektra
Approximate running time: 1 HRS 45 MIN
The genius director Patrice Chéreau (From the House of the Dead) didn’t live to see his great Elektra production, previously presented in Aix and Milan, make it to the stage of the Met. But his overpowering vision lives on with soprano Nina Stemme—unmatched today in the heroic female roles of Strauss and Wagner—who portrays Elektra’s primal quest for vengeance for the murder of her father, Agamemnon. Legendary mezzo-soprano Waltraud Meier is chilling as Elektra’s fearsome mother, Klytämnestra. Soprano Adrianne Pieczonka and bass-baritone Eric Owens are Elektra’s troubled siblings. Chéreau’s musical collaborator Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Strauss’s mighty take on Greek myth.
Sung in: German
Cast
CONDUCTOR
Esa-Pekka Salonen
ELEKTRA
Nina Stemme
CHRYSOTHEMIS
Adrianne Pieczonka
AEGISTH
Burkhard Ulrich
KLYTÄMNESTRA
Waltraud Meier
